From 683b00ba46edda688f1127ff0064ebc03b42381e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: q <q@moonq.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 22:51:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] background file removal

---
 bin/rm_bg |  1 +
 rm_bg     | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)
 create mode 120000 bin/rm_bg
 create mode 100755 rm_bg

diff --git a/bin/rm_bg b/bin/rm_bg
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..60a8387
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/rm_bg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../rmbg
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/rm_bg b/rm_bg
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..d8f7c50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rm_bg
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+function helpexit() {
+    echo Delete files in background, by moving the to a temp folder first.
+    echo This command is always recursive!
+    exit
+}
+
+[[ -z "$1" ]] && helpexit
+[[ "$1" = "-h" ]] && helpexit
+
+tempfolders=()
+for f in "$@"; do
+    d=$( readlink -nf $( dirname "$f" ) )/.rmgb.$$
+    mkdir -p "$d"
+    mv $f "$d"/
+    tempfolders+=( "$d" )
+done
+
+(
+for (( i=0; $i<${#tempfolders[@]}; i++ )); do
+    rm -rf "${tempfolders[$i]}"
+done
+) &